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How we pay attention to the present moment...determin es the character of our experience and...the quality of our lives.

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Sam Harris
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: April 9
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Samuel Benjamin Harris
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Each increment of knowledge imparted in this way is so satisfying-and one's ignorance at every stage so consequential-that the process of learning BJJ can become remarkably addictive. I have never experienced anything quite like it.
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The science of morality is about maximizing psychological and social health. It's really no more inflammatory than that.
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The most transformative experiences people have - bliss, devotion, self transcendence - are currently anchored to the worst parts of culture and to ways of thinking that merely amplify superstition, self-deception, and conflict.
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Reason is nothing less than the guardian of love
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I know of no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too desirous of evidence in support of their core beliefs.
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As a man believes, so he will act.
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In my own case, the most inflammatory statements I have ever made are ones that I have written and remain willing to defend.
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We should profile Muslims, or anyone who looks like he or she could conceivably be Muslim, and we should be honest about it.
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The freedom to think out loud on certain topics, without fear of being hounded into hiding or killed, has already been lost.
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George Bush says he speaks to god every day, & Christians love him for it. If George Bush said he spoke to god through his hair dryer, they would think he was mad. I fail to see how the addition of a hair dryer makes it any more absurd.
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It is difficult to think of anything more important than providing the best education possible for our children. They will develop the next technologies, medical cures, and global industries, while mitigating their unintended effects, or they will fail to do these things and consign us all to oblivion.
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We will see that the greatest problem confronting civilization is not merely religious extremism: rather, it is the larger set of cultural and intellectual accommodations we have made to faith itself.
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